production of ambiguity in the discourses of home and belonging. In a way it is a reaction to the liberal ideas of multiculturalism. Diasporic subjects often seem to submit to the 'law of the hyphen' (Mishra, 421-237), challenge 'classical epistemologies' and 'collide to find space in a space that has yet to be semanticized, the hyphen between two surrounding words'. Today, there are many more people whose bodies do not "signify an unproblematic identity of self with nations" (Mishra, 431). According to Vijay Mishra, this gives rise to the creation in plural/multicultural societies of an 'impure gender of the hyphenated subject' (Mishra, 433). This subject is in search of a definitive national identity, in the sense that cumbersome nomenclatures such as Afro- American, Asian-Australian and the like don't stop at either constituent term, but get "lost" somewhere in the hyphen. New media both exacerbate and alleviate this exile consciousness... half the paper... ....New York, Hampton Press, 1996, p 132.Mishra, Vijay. "The Diasporic Imaginary: Theorizing the Indian Diaspora." Textual Practice 10:3: 421-237. Introduction: At Home in Modernity." In Diasporas in Diasporas, New York University Press, 1998. Shohat, Ella. "From Babylon's Bitstream: Cybernetic Frontiers and Diasporic Landscapes." Home, Exile, Farm: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place , ed Hamid Naficy, NY, Routledge, 1998, p 219.Sinfield, Alan. “Diaspora and Hybridity: Queer Identity and Ethnic Pattern.” Textual Practice 10:2, 1996, p 271-293. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Diasporas old and new: women in the transnational world”. Textual Practice 10:2, 1996, p 245-269.Tepper, Michele. "Usenet Communities and the Cultural Politics of Information" in Internet Culture, ed. Porter, D. Routledge, London, 1997.

Topic > production of ambiguity in the discourses of home and belonging. In a way it is a reaction to the liberal ideas of multiculturalism. Diasporic subjects often seem to submit to the 'law of the hyphen' (Mishra, 421-237), challenge 'classical epistemologies' and 'collide to find space in a space that has yet to be semanticized, the hyphen between two surrounding words'. Today, there are many more people whose bodies do not "signify an unproblematic identity of self with nations" (Mishra, 431). According to Vijay Mishra, this gives rise to the creation in plural/multicultural societies of an 'impure gender of the hyphenated subject' (Mishra, 433). This subject is in search of a definitive national identity, in the sense that cumbersome nomenclatures such as Afro- American, Asian-Australian and the like don't stop at either constituent term, but get "lost" somewhere in the hyphen. New media both exacerbate and alleviate this exile consciousness... half the paper... ....New York, Hampton Press, 1996, p 132.Mishra, Vijay. "The Diasporic Imaginary: Theorizing the Indian Diaspora." Textual Practice 10:3: 421-237. Introduction: At Home in Modernity." In Diasporas in Diasporas, New York University Press, 1998. Shohat, Ella. "From Babylon's Bitstream: Cybernetic Frontiers and Diasporic Landscapes." Home, Exile, Farm: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place , ed Hamid Naficy, NY, Routledge, 1998, p 219.Sinfield, Alan. “Diaspora and Hybridity: Queer Identity and Ethnic Pattern.” Textual Practice 10:2, 1996, p 271-293. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Diasporas old and new: women in the transnational world”. Textual Practice 10:2, 1996, p 245-269.Tepper, Michele. "Usenet Communities and the Cultural Politics of Information" in Internet Culture, ed. Porter, D. Routledge, London, 1997.